NITANSH THAKERNT / SYSTEMS

BSc General Engineering — Cyber Systems at DTU

Nitansh Thaker

I’m Nitansh. I study Cyber Systems at DTU and am currently on exchange at HKUST. I build and test software connecting sensing, control, and decision-making.

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Hong Kong · HKUST exchange

Conceptual sensing, controller, arm, and encoder-feedback diagramA conceptual diagram, not deployed hardware. A mounted controller sends commands through an external cable to a sensor head on a two-joint arm; encoder feedback returns from the shoulder joint to the controller.CTRL01SENSESTATE ACQUISITION02DECIDECONTROLLER +POLICY03COMMUNICATECOMMAND + ACK04ACTJOINT MOTORS +PHYSICAL OUTPUT05VERIFYENCODER FEEDBACK

Sensing, control, and feedback

Conceptual system diagram; not deployed hardware.

Experience

Mission Control Engineer
DanSTAR Rocketry

Mission Control

Mission-control and flight-computer software built around explicit state, validated commands, and acknowledged transitions.

Project evidence

Mission sequence
Built a timeline state machine with validated binary commands and flight-computer-confirmed transitions.
Simulator
Tested state progression, UDP discovery, command handling, and log output with a Python flight-computer simulator.
What is public
Payload validation and repeatable simulator scenarios are described here; private code and flight results are not published.
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Research Intern
PHAETHON Centre of Excellence

Reinforcement Learning for Local Energy Markets

Simulation and evaluation of constrained battery and market decisions across transparent baselines and learning-based control.

Project evidence

Energy model
Simulated photovoltaic generation, demand, battery storage, grid transactions, and time-varying prices in Python.
Control methods
Compared rule-based control, Q-learning, Expected SARSA, and Dueling DQN against a transparent baseline.
Evaluation
The evaluation is simulation-based; unpublished numerical results are omitted.
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Projects

DTU Embedded Systems Programming

Sports Timing and Control System

An ESP32 prototype integrating sensing, state feedback, physical actuation, displays, and race-control logic.

Embedded sports timer sensing, timing-state, and feedback loop01READY02COUNTDOWN03ARMED04RUNNING05FINISHEDULTRASONIC EVENT · TIMER · MULTI-MODAL FEEDBACK
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DTU Design Build 3

Solar-Powered Buoy

A team-built autonomous buoy prototype, with my focus on Arduino firmware and electronics for a solar-powered environmental-monitoring system.

SOLAR INPUTWATERLINEPOWER STORAGEPV + BATTERYMY FOCUSARDUINO +ELECTRONICSSYSTEM PURPOSEMONITORINGCONCEPTUAL SYSTEM SECTION · NOT A HARDWARE RENDER
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DTU × Deloitte

Consultant Matching System

A Java consultant-matching application built with Deloitte, combining LLM-assisted matching, layered architecture, and behaviour-driven testing.

CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTUREREQUEST ↑RESPONSE ↓01 / INPUTCONSULTANTINFORMATIONEXTERNAL SERVICELLM API02 / JAVAMATCHINGLOGIC03 / OUTPUTMATCHINGRESULTS

Tests: Cucumber/JUnit behaviour tests keep deterministic checks separate from real-endpoint integrations. Documentation: LaTeX PDF export is separate from matching results.

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